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May 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "I've Always Pictured You Wearing Pants Pt. 11"
Chapters00:00 - Brilliant stretched chords
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Simple lines intertwining....
this one is harder than it looks. Give it a try.
Echo courtesy of an old lavender DanEcho I bought in a pawn shop yesterday for 40 bucks cash out the door.
May 1st, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Torch Light Larry”
Chapters00:00 - A little practice with the big man
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Uncle Larry gettin’ a little blues on with Wille and Sheryl.
Great singers.
April 15th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Saturday Bonus “Plug It Up”
Chapters00:00 - '65 reverse Firebird with factory P-90s / Just call me the "Birdman"
02:00 - Raised pickups, tuned bridge, tuners, filed nut, pitted frets
04:07 - '65 non-reverse Firebird I / Tune-o-matic
06:16 - Exciting shootout of Firebirds / Starting with reverse playing
08:17 - Non-reverse playing
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This video brought to you by the Birdman Of Nash Angeles.
If you wanna get your old bird in tune for the first time in its life contact Nick Drushel at Glaser Instruments
He’s a good lookin’ boy and a damn fine machinist.
April 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 209, Tom Bukovac, "Instacart Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Song with chords - Remeber that?
02:40 - What's up cats! / Worn in fret job
04:30 - Thanks for past videos (John McBride & Gruhn)
05:41 - Lesson: Trip The Witch - Saturn We Miss You (C, Ebadd9, Cm7, Abadd9)
07:59 - Everyone moving to Nashville (Nash Angeles)
11:00 - Instacart
11:53 - Do you miss analog tape?
14:37 - The Gear Page
19:16 - Uncle Larry is always drunk!
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Uncle Larry waxes rhapsodic about many topics...plus an in depth VCB examination.
April 9th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Vintage Video Vault”
Chapters00:00 - Old video of fixing a guitar
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Takin you back to circa 2015 here…at 2nd Gear Music in Nashville TN
We used to drink, gamble and make fun of everything in that store….Evertune bridges were clearly no exception.
Ahhhh good times
Starring a young Kris Donegan and Uncle Larry 20 pounds ago
Thanks to Mike Scaggs for unearthing this gem.
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April 5th, 2023
Uncle Larry's Garage Sale "Spring Cleaning"
Chapters00:00 - Slow Leslie playing
00:53 - Garage sale starts with Leslie
01:56 - Yamaha electric grand
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Just a quickie version of ULGS
70's Leslie 825 with the minty combo preamp. $800
70's Yamaha CP-70B electric grand piano $2000 (which is half of what people are asking on reverb)
Local pickup only!!!
Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
First come first serve....as always
March 29th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 205, "The Notes Between The Notes"
Chapters00:00 - Little swanky Beatles guitar
01:51 - Hello all / Kenny Wayne swipe / Wednesdays
03:20 - Gibson SG / Nylon saddles
04:00 - Nashville shooting aftermath / Thank for kind words
05:05 - Beatles - Hey Bulldog / More than 12 notes scale / John Lennon sing in between notes
06:06 - Nashville guitar show total fail
07:20 - Comments on originality in music
08:45 - Owning a legendary guitar? / Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates and story
09:49 - Showing a video with good guitar playing? Doesn't exist
10:05 - Best comment? Joe Namath DJ your party
11:04 - Talking about some pedals / Pete Cornish pedal
11:55 - Son Marshall getting into guitar playing / Buying prebuilt pedalboard
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Uncle Larry gettin' all microtonal and shit.....
If anyone wants to call James Burkett and order one of his re-everythinged old Harmony Sovereigns here is his number...(334) 797-6388.
keep in mind he does these by hand one at a time, so you ain't gonna be getting one tomorrow....or this week....or....
and totally unrelated, but fucking MORE terrible news, check this out....one of the ONLY places in Nashville that i actually go to....or used to....
heartbreaking.....Johnny is a sweet sweet guy and this was the ONLY cool card store in this town.
March 21st, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "Mad Dogs And Clevelanders"
Chapters00:00 - Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker / Tom Bukovac Rendition)
03:20 - All time favorite tunes / Howya going mate!
03:55 - "Mad Dog with Soul" (Joe Cocker documentary)
04:20 - The Struts (Session project)
05:00 - Watch Delta Lady from live performance of "Mad Dog with Soul"
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Uncle Larry waxes rhapsodic about one of the greatest voices to ever step up to a microphone....and the great convergence of England and Tulsa.
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 201, Tom Bukovac, "Pedalmania!!"
Chapters00:00 - Some raunchy guitar
01:45 - Hi, friends! / Many videos and thanks
03:20 - Gear review demo / Pedal nuisance
05:30 - Empress - Compressor / Greer - Black Mountain / Eastside Music Supply - Brown Amplification Atom / Coppersound Killswitch
08:00 - Base sound (amp and reverb)
09:00 - Brown Amplification Atom
10:15 - Black Mountain Crunch Drive / Lightspeed
13:20 - Proud of this channel and Positive energy
13:55 - Roger Mayer Voodoo
14:30 - Compressor
17:10 - Killswitch
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Uncle Larry makes an exception to his long standing rule of not doing gear demos on his channel....by the way...it's Friday in my mind.
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' VOLUME 200!!!! "A Special Treat"
Chapters00:00 - Intro 200th episode / Pacifico and wine
03:08 - Homeskoolin' thanks / Dann Huff as a producer
06:18 - Collaboration and dictatorship / No right way to finish line
12:24 - Moment knew when making big
15:45 - Dann's take on guitar tone
18:00 - Dann bought Tom's pedalboard
18:53 - No greatest tone / Leslie West story
21:00 - Van Halen (tuning)
23:15 - Midrange / Small guitar tones
27:00 - Cool Dann story (Van Halen)
30:50 - Bass content with guitars
34:00 - Most genious overdubbing
35:50 - Great guitar tones / Billy Gibbons stories and Guthrie Trapp
38:19 - Great tones continued / Billy Gibbons - Jesus Just Left Chicago
41:16 - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
43:08 - 50% more distortion / Distortion and guitar
47:22 - Marshall Plexi tone / Foreigner - Hot Blooded / Greatest power chord Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
53:45 - Roxy Music - Love is the Drug solo
55:55 - That one note of Steely Dan
58:10 - Cooper Time Cube - 100 ft of garden hose (doubling effect) / Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
63:10 - Steve Miller Band
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One of my favorite humans on this planet
Sweet Dann Huff
March 13th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 199, Tom Bukovac, "The One Before 200"
Chapters00:00 - Rockin' it
03:00 - Uncle Larry home coming / Guthrie studio
05:08 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ziggy prints
06:15 - Studio session
06:57 - Favorite show of all / Thanks for this vehicle to deliver
08:30 - Having albums of your own
09:50 - Firebird 5 and models
11:21 - Album joke with guitar terms as song names
12:20 - Prediction of 1,000,000 subscribers / Keeping it real
13:20 - Return of Rolling Rock, but prefer beer in general
13:45 - YouTube is the only one worth as shit part II / Mercedes clock
15:10 - BTPA cables
15:28 - Cream & Eric Clapton / How music makes a person feel
17:18 - New viewers and comments
18:00 - KISS / Ace Frehley - Rip It Out
19:20 - 200th episode / Going from Major to minor
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Uncle Larry reminisces fondly about today's studio happenings and stuffs his arm way up inside the VCB pipe to remove some clogged comments.
Thanks for watching the show people...we got a pretty good thing going here.
...and speaking of good things, check out this bad boy
Steve Cox....a dear old friend from Cleveland,
He taught a young Uncle Larry some very valuable musical lessons back when Larry was just a mixed up kid living in some shit rental house with a carpeted kitchen in Antioch.
I owe Steve a lot.....i still use some of the things he showed me on a daily basis...and ol' Larry never forgets anyone who helped him anywhere along "the journey".
March 12th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 198, Tom Bukovac "Ember Red Destruction Machine"
Chapters00:00 - Boogie with some Rolling slide guitar
02:20 - Just Larry / No NFL / CD Collection / 80,000 Subscribers
03:39 - Michael Rhodes funeral
05:20 - Guthrie and album completion
05:55 - New Morgan Wallen record
07:00 - Favorite question: Every band or artist everyone likes except you?
08:38 - BTPA Cables - really cool
09:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / CDs / David and David
10:58 - Reaching far for an audience / YouTube is the only Social Media outlet worth a shit
12:00 - Newfoundland customs agent story
13:42 - '66 Gibson Firebird, non-reverse, P90, destruction machine
14:22 - 3rd & Lindsley remix DVD coming out
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Uncle Larry gets busy with a tweed big box Tremolux with the channels jumped by a high quality BTPA cable.
and totally unrelated....great example of what I'm always talking about in terms of getting on a cool part and STAYING WITH IT...if you ever deviate from it there better be a DAMN GOOD reason.
March 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Vintage Long Form Session B Roll "Flower Power"
Chapters00:00 - Sessions: The work into forming a song
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Taking you waaaaaay back to the chilly cold February of 2023....Larry was holed up for a few days in a home studio out by the airport to produce a few tracks for his dear old buddy Bobby "Gateweed" Gatewood from Cleveland Ohio. Bobby and Uncle Larry have been friends since the late 80's when Bobby originally hired Uncle Larry to play bass in his cover band called Calabash.
Every few years or so Bobby slips away from his cushy life as the mayor of Put-In-Bay Ohio and cruises down to Nashtown to make a record with the Nashville cats.
We are working at the legendary Headroom Studio in Donelson here and the engineer you are seeing here in this video is my dear old pal Rick "Sweet Ricky D" Delima. Rick's sweet wife Stacy helped out on the project as well with some lyrics and backing vox...and some delicious lunches.
Tasty live drums being provided by another fellow Clevelander, sweet Shawn Fichter....one of the sweetest human beings to ever inhabit this planet.
Bobby originally brought this tune in as an uptempo boogie woogie kinda thing...but i thought the sentiment of the song and the introspective lyric "all i was trying to do was find me" might possibly be better served by a wistful longing 60's hippie vibe, with some janglin' stoner guitars...so we proceeded down that path.
Then later on, after some group lyric re-writing and the addition of David "Bird Dog" Dorn's B-3 and bunch of tasty Haight-Ashbury guitars and some folky holllowbody bass, this track turned out fantastic.
When it's finished and mixed i will play it for ya.
totally unrelated:
Here's an old song from one of Bobby's earlier records (2007) that i produced when we were all very much younger...."Did We Try?"
This track has some bad ass cats on it....Joe Vitale on drums, Will Owsley on rhythm guitar. David Santos on bass, Mark T Jordan on keys, Troy Johnson on backing vox, Larry on lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8McGEgFAew&t=0s
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March 8th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 197, Tom Bukovac, "Disraeli Beers"
Chapters00:00 - Vocal leading song
00:00 - Harmony H1260 Sovereign converted by James Burkett comparison
01:10 - Original Harmony Sovereign
02:22 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / L6-S (not pissing anyone off)
02:52 - James Burkett Harmony / Amazing picking
04:20 - Comment Bin / Ned Steinberger and planet waves capo / Phenomenon movie
05:30 - Manic Mechanic and Irsay gig / Billy Gibbons story
06:30 - Steve Farrone drummer / Session hire
07:00 - 1958 Flying Vs and Explorers
08:26 - Neil Peart / Stewart Copeland
09:53 - Ovation Breadwinner
10:42 - Ginger Baker and pissing people off / Cream
12:25 - Later school start time
12:54 - Stephen Stills rips into Billy Branch
13:25 - Show demographic
14:10 - Toast and vacuums (V15)
15:35 - IQ and voice leading / Smart people
16:43 - Richie Hayward and Little Feat
17:00 - Fender Mustang ugly?
17:25 - Lesson: Hard picking scale
18:30 - Gear doesn't matter?
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I tried to post this this morning before work, but the upload failed...but here we go, 8 hours later...
March 2nd, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 195, Tom Bukovac, "Take Your Blues Down"
Chapters00:00 - Cars - Let the Good Times Roll / jammin'
01:44 - Checking in
02:38 - Old Cars song / Darren in Cars tribute band
03:08 - Lesson: Harmonic bit of "Let the Good Times Roll"
03:50 - Thanks for comments / Connection all over the world / New viewers
05:50 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) Numbskull : FailedRockStar : StringLocker
06:15 - What inspires you more: Guitar or Amp?
06:53 - Hybrid picking style and making a living
07:54 - "Sad music from a sad man"
08:25 - What style of music? / Caveman Rock to Jazzer
09:33 - Blues over Major
10:35 - Example: Blues over Major
12:28 - What style is left? / Allan Holdsworth
13:42 - Taxes and sports
15:30 - Lesson: Speed picking thing / Loose wrist
18:09 - Bridge pickup on Duesenberg vs Les Paul "Burst"
18:20 - Duesenberg pickup height
18:45 - Duesenberg: Great creamy, crunchy lead tone / Powerful crunch playing
19:45 - Burst: Growling, howling, singing amazing tone of the Les Paul
20:35 - Les Paul pickup height
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Uncle Larry rips into the viewer comment bin with a vengeance
March 1st, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "Ipswich Suffolk Foxhall Ditton Surrey On The Thames Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Working those fingers with a little reverb.
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Uncle Larry tries to get blood out of a Firebird.
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February 27th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 194, Tom Bukovac, "The Unseen World"
Chapters00:00 - Some plucking around
01:30 - Hello, everyone!
03:11 - Senn guitar
03:22 - Paper or plastic / "Save the planet"
04:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / '60 Tweed Princeton / Strat and pickups
05:54 - Lynyrd Skynyrd thanks
06:25 - New pre-scribers / Rotten apples and hiding users
07:23 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 Hollowbody Doubleneck / Story
10:54 - East Ohio thanks
11:36 - Lesson: Tablature chord Dmin7 / "Instant Larry"
12:51 - Shameless plug
14:25 - Outro playing
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Monday morning coffee talk and VCB with Larry.
link to COMFY HOMESKOOLIN MERCH
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/me...
link to TRIP THE WITCH CD's and T SHIRTS
https://shop.bandwear.com/tripthewitch
and our boy ziggy at ziggysartstudio.com has a little something special planned to commemorate the 200th Homeskoolin' episode
and totally unrelated.....as ludicrous as this is....i GUARANTEE you won't be able to stop watching it til the end
February 25th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "East Ohio Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Building and delivering a heartfelt tune
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for all the folks that woke up one day and discovered that their whole town had been poisoned by a toxic train goin off the tracks...coulda happened to anybody anywhere.
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February 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Raunch Dressing”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin finger pickin / Full-blown rock
03:22 - '60 Fender Tweed Princeton
04:00 - Pedalboard look
04:27 - 80's Super Champ
04:50 - '63 Gibson SG
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Hello friends….contact me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want the 63 SG (11.5k) or the Super Champ (1400.00)
Gonna be a week or so until the Super Champ is ready to go (unless you fix amps yourself)…it has a noisy tube that i would like to have fixed before i sell it.
Larry don’t sell no bullshit.
Buyer must pick up in person. Cash deals only. No shipping….unless of course there wa$ $ome kind of con$iderable incentive to do $o.....
February 9th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ “EXTREMELY Rare and Unexpected Gear Related Bonus Video”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, friends! / Mini-humbuckers vs. Firebird pickups
01:25 - Mini-humbucker, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Les Paul)
02:36 - Firebird pickup, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Firebird)
03:30 - What do we notice? / Differences
04:06 - Nobels & Firebird pickup
05:00 - Nobels & Mini-humbucker
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Your dear uncle shines some light on the age old comparison between “firebird pickups” and “regular mini humbuckers” as they are known on the street.
so...what do YOU hear dear Homeskoolers??
Test notes:
a) both guitars tuned down a half step and outfitted with only the finest roundwound strings.
b) a 1954 fender tweed deluxe vacuum tube amplifier and a no-balls odr-1 overdrive pedal were used as a control.